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From: shane

To: [address removed]

Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:27 AM

Subject: Re: [webdesign-483] Help

My advice is to pick a number that gives you some breathing room later on down the road.  Just by going with joomla, your client  is getting added value that is worth thousands of dollars... but it is hard to bill for that appropriately.

If you can do a custom template, then you can bill pretty much whatever you want... if not, then they will soon find out that you are modify other peoples work to give them a new website.

I usually bill in $250 chunks

Domain / Hosting setup

Initial Joomla! install

Template modification

Initial Joomla! Configuration

That gets you to around $1000 to setup a working Joomla website, I really think that is about the bare minimum cost? anything less and you are doing a favor.

From there you have to spec out what they want each component to do.  I think it is really beneficial long term to help your client think in terms of component addition having an upfront cost and then customization / configuration / support having an hourly rate.

Depending on what they ask for and how it develops this could end up being tens of thousands of dollars in a long term relationship.

Eventually people will need your Joomla expertise to fix problems / add features / and customize their website, you want to be able to charge on a continual basis? this is something I am learning? sometimes the hard way?

> Hi Everyone,

> I have decided to take the plunge!

> I have a customer that wants me to build her website, go figure.

> It will be a simple site, three or four pages and a blog.

> Using joomla of course, but I don?t know what to bill her. Can anyone

> give me some guidance please??????????????

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> Thanks

> See you at the next meeting.

> Tim

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